"Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel ""Midnight's Children"" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Pakistan and Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule and lives during the new tumultuous struggles that engulf the new nations following 15 August 1947. Sinai embodies these physical struggles and rifts during, and serves as a metaphor for, the spiritual, religious, political and intellectual traumas of the young"
"Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when England gave up control of ""India""... The book was written in the style of magic realism. It portrays the lives of Iskander Harappa (sometimes assumed to be Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), and General Raza Hyder (sometimes assumed to be General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq), and their relationship. The central theme of the novel is"
"Haroun and the Sea of Stories Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's fifth novel after ""The Satanic Verses"". It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name. ""Haroun and the Sea of Stories"" is an allegory for several problems existing in society today, especially in the Indian subcontinent. It looks at these problems from the viewpoint of the young protagonist Haroun. Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, from whom he was separated for some time. Many elements"
"well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The novel is divided into three books. The book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to India's Independence and Partition. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, 15 August 1947, therefore, exactly as old as independent India. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. on that date are imbued with special powers. Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a ""Midnight Children's Conference"", reflective of the issues India faced in its early"
"the while, the Great Philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the famous theologian Al-Ghazali pursue a philosophical debate about reason and God. The title is a reference to the 1,001 nights Scheherazade spent telling stories in the Arabian Nights. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel is set in New York in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offsprings during the ""strangenesses."" After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the"
"Verses"", a novel written by Salman Rushdie became controversial in the 1990s due to the allegedly inflammatory and insulting text about Islamic prophet Muhammad, his wives and the ""Companions"" causing worldwide protests. The Indian government banned the book fearing protests from politicians and religious clerics. Shahabuddin claimed that the book was an ""indecent vilification of the Holy Prophet"". He also felt that the book would be rejected by any civilised society. ""BBC"" wrote that he was instrumental in getting the book banned in India. Rushdie hailed Shahabuddin and Khurshed Alam Khan extremists for opposing the book. On 13 October 1988,"
"a special connection with those born in South Asia at the same historic moment. He is also unusual in having an unsightly nose that constantly runs and bulging temples. Rushdie grants the character supernatural powers and he comes to symbolize and embody the struggle and strains of a nation being born and torn into pieces all at the same time. The character is borrowed from the draft of an earlier novel called ""The Antagonist"". In a theatrical version of the novel, Zubin Varla played Saleem Sinai. He said he identified strongly with the story as, ""His own family hailed from"
"suffer persecution as authorities recognize their unique power and ability to impact on the masses. Salman Rushdie, an awarded British-Muslim novelist and essayist of Indian origin became a target following the publication his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988). The book was the center of a major controversy in the Islamic world because of what was perceived as an irreverent depiction of Muhammad. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989 and a bounty was offered for Rushdie's death. Rushdi was forced to hide and"
"Salman Rushdie. British-Indian actor Satya Bhabha played the role of Saleem Sinai while other roles were played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami and Darsheel Safary. The film was released on 9 September 2012 at Toronto International Film Festival and would be nominated for Best Motion Picture along with 7 other nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards. Many of Mehta’s films across her career have focused on the duality of her national and cultural identity which has informed much of her filmmaking as she has been described as"
"1950 on throughout the 20th century, and she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. From Nigeria a number of writers have achieved an international reputation for"
"novel unfold in Tunisia during the tumultuous late 1980s and early 1990s, and examine the political clashes between leftists and Islamists and the forces that brought Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to power. The novel won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (often called the ""Arab Booker prize""), which was awarded in Abu Dhabi despite the book being banned in the Emirates. Shukri Mabkhout Shukri Mabkhout, also transcribed Choukri Mabkhout, (; born 1962) is a Tunisian academic, critic and novelist. He was born in Tunis, and obtained a PhD in literature from the Arts College of Manouba. He has written"
"Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel is set in New York in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offsprings during the ""strangenesses."" After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth. The jinnia princess and her children thus need to fight to defend the Earth and the humans from them, the Grand Ifrits. All"
"world. As a birthday present, Omar Khayyám Shakil's ""mothers"" allow him to leave Q. He enrolls in a school and is convinced by his tutor (Eduardo Rodriguez) to become a doctor. Over time, he comes in contact with both Iskander Harappa and General Raza Hyder. Rushdie, Salman. ""Shame"". Vintage: London, 1995. Shame (Rushdie novel) Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel, published in 1983. This book was written out of a desire to approach the problem of ""artificial"" (other-made) country divisions, their residents' complicity, and the problems of post-colonialism, when Pakistan was created to separate the Muslims from the Hindus, when"
"the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing inspiration from the Indian independence movement, the black power movement, and the anti-apartheid movement, young British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi activists began a number of anti-racist Asian youth movements in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in 1978, and the Newham Youth Movement following the murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980. The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel ""The Satanic Verses"" in 1988 caused major controversy. A number of Muslims in Britain condemned the book for blasphemy. On 2 December"
"levels of society, and therefore they could experiment more boldly and from a more secure position."" Kamala Markandeya is an early writer in IEL who has often grouped with the trinity of R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. The contributions of Manoj Das and Manohar Malgoankar to growth of IEL largely remains unacknowledged. Among the later writers, the most notable is Salman Rushdie, born in India, now living in the USA. Rushdie with his famous work ""Midnight's Children"" (Booker Prize 1981, Booker of Bookers 1992, and Best of the Bookers 2008) ushered in a new trend of writing."
"that Witte made up his story after seeing the first film version of the novel. Author Salman Rushdie cited ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" in the epigraph to ""Haroun and the Sea of Stories"", the novel he wrote while living in hiding in the late 1980s. The novel has been part of the syllabus of higher secondary schools in Pakistan for over three decades. The series of British historical novels, the Flashman Papers, has the cowardly antihero of the roped into a similar plot by Otto von Bismark in the 1970 novel Royal Flash, which was later made into a 1975"
"Talkhiyaan Talkhiyaan (English: ""Bitterness"") is a 2013 Pakistani drama serial, written by Bee Gul and directed by Khalid Ahmed. It highlights a stereotypical mentality of men that live by their ancestral pride and deep-rooted notions of a caste system. It depicts the frustrations of a mother, wife and daughter who are provoked by society. The serial features Sanam Saeed and Australian actor, writer and film director Summer Nicks and Mehak Khan in lead roles. It is based on 'The God of Small Things' , a semi - autobiographical novel by Indian Author Arundhati Roy. The novel won Booker Prize in"
"essay, ""Magic realism in relation to the post-colonial and Midnight's Children,"" argues that the ""narrative framework of ""Midnight's Children"" consists of a tale – comprising his life story – which Saleem Sinai recounts orally to his wife-to-be Padma. This self-referential narrative (within a single paragraph Saleem refers to himself in the first person: ″And I, wishing upon myself the curse of Nadir Khan."" and the third: ""'I tell you,' Saleem cried, 'it is true. ...'"") recalls indigenous Indian culture, particularly the similarly orally recounted ""Arabian Nights"". The events in the book also parallel the magical nature of the narratives recounted"
"His novel ""Luka and the Fire of Life"" was published in November 2010. Earlier that year, he announced that he was writing his memoirs, entitled """", which was published in September 2012. In 2012, Salman Rushdie became one of the first major authors to embrace Booktrack (a company that synchronises ebooks with customised soundtracks), when he published his short story ""In the South"" on the platform. The Year 2015 saw the publication of Rushdie's novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a shift back to his old beloved technique of magic realism. This novel is designed in the structure"
"disputed. He was ""Time"" magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 for his international influence, and Khomeini has been described as the ""virtual face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture"". In 1982, he survived one military coup attempt. Khomeini was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis, his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, and for referring to the United States as the ""Great Satan"" and Soviet Union as the ""Lesser Satan."" Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians (including his"
"light of the controversy over ""The Satanic Verses"": in a dramatized version of the Islamabad police firing on a mob on 12 February 1990 when five demonstrators were killed and 83 injured, their younger sister is killed by the police while demonstrating against Rushdie. The three brothers decide to avenge her and Islam’s honor by hunting down and killing Rushdie. They receive the help of a female police officer in the course of their mission. Salman Rushdie, played by Afzaal Ahmad, is portrayed in the film as a sadistic criminal mastermind, working for an international conspiracy devoted to destroying Islam"
"Samarkand (novel) Samarkand () is a 1988 historical fiction novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The narrative revolves the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and his poetry collection ""Rubaiyat"". The novel received the Prix Maison de la Presse. The first half of the story is set in Persia (present day Iran) and Central Asia in the 11th century, and revolves around the scientist, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám. It recounts the creation of his Rubaiyat throughout the history of the Seljuk Empire, his interactions with historical figures such as Vizir Nizam al-Mulk and Hassan al-Sabbah of the order of"
"was an account of his childhood in the poverty-ridden Dongri area of Mumbai. His latest novel, ""Sufi"", describes the parallel lives of two friends: the author himself and a man called Iqbal Rupani, who rose to become the kingpin of the Mumbai underworld in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1975, his fictional version based on the ""Devil's Bible"", entitled ""The Black Book"", created a nationwide controversy. Even amidst critical acclaim, it was translated into seven languages and voted Book of the Year in Kannada. He earned the nickname the ""Salman Rushdie of India"" after his ""Black Book"" was published. He"
"as hunger artists. A reference is made to the folktale ""Rapunzel"" in the book's fourth chapter. Haroun encounters a warrior who is fighting his own shadow. This is possibly a reference to J.M Barrie's ""Peter Pan"". ""Goopy"" and ""Bagha,"" the names of the Plentimaws, allude to the characters Goopy and Bagha created by Bengali author Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. His grandson, the Academy Award-winning director Satyajit Ray, directed two films with Goopy and Bagha as protagonists. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's fifth novel"
"""one of the most significant events in postwar literary history."" Even before the publication of ""The Satanic Verses"", the books of Salman Rushdie had stoked controversy. Rushdie saw his role as a writer ""as including the function of antagonist to the state"". His second book ""Midnight's Children"" angered Indira Gandhi because it seemed to suggest ""that Mrs. Gandhi was responsible for the death of her husband through neglect"". His 1983 ""roman à clef"" ""Shame"" ""took an aim on Pakistan, its political characters, its culture and its religion... [It covered] a central episode in Pakistan's internal life, which portrays as a"
"ignite deeper demons within Solanka's life, resulting in the narrowly avoided murder of his wife and child. To further escape, Solanka travels to New York, hopeful he can lose himself and his demons in America, only to find that he is forced to confront himself. Fury (Rushdie novel) Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by postcolonial author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from Bombay, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life"
"of Allah. This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, and was rekindled only when Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, ""The Satanic Verses"", made headline news. The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage. Muslims around the world protested the book's publishing, and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa sentencing Rushdie to death, saying that the book blasphemed Muhammad and his wives. Since William Muir, the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists. Some orientalists, however, argued against the historic authenticity of these verses on various"
"book is far more than a simple historical novel; like the intricate embroidery of an oriental carpet it weaves back and forth through the centuries, linking the poetry, philosophy and passion of the Sufi past with modernism."" Samarkand (novel) Samarkand () is a 1988 historical fiction novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The narrative revolves the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and his poetry collection ""Rubaiyat"". The novel received the Prix Maison de la Presse. The first half of the story is set in Persia (present day Iran) and Central Asia in the 11th century, and revolves around the"
"opposed to authoritarianism, and Machiavelli is a character in the book. Like Rushdie's previous works, the book can be considered a work of magic realism. The Enchantress of Florence The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. According to Rushdie this is his ""most researched book"" which required ""years and years of reading"". The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House. The central theme of ""The Enchantress of Florence"" is the visit of a European to the Mughal emperor Akbar's court and"
"Some commentators have concluded that the character ""Bilal X"" in Rushdie's book is a caricature of Yusuf Islam. The fictional character Bilal X, a successful African-American former pop singer who has converted to Islam, is portrayed by Rushdie as the ""favoured lieutenant"" of ""the Imam"", a character based on the Shia Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Bilal X's ""well-nourished, highly trained"" voice serves as ""a weapon of the West turned against its makers."" Cat Stevens' comments about Salman Rushdie Following Ayatollah Khomeini's 14 February 1989 death fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, after the publication of Rushdie's novel ""The Satanic Verses"", Yusuf Islam,"
"The Satanic Verses The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three Pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the ""satanic verses"" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. In the United Kingdom, ""The Satanic Verses"" received"
"to overcome. The book is about destiny vs luck, and personal dedication. In 2008, the book was loosely adapted into the multiple Oscar-winning movie ""Slumdog Millionaire,"" which features a new main character named Jamal and his brother Salim. The movie is a comment on how poverty and corruption poison the human spirit, and how to retain one's true self in the face of adversity. The idea behind the story line was triggered by a report in a local newspaper about children living in the Indian slums using mobile phones and the internet - an indication that class barriers were breaking"
"the role of Saleem Sinai while other roles were played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary. The film was premiered in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival (2012-09-09) and the Vancouver International Film Festival (2012-09-27). For an academic overview of the adaptations of ""Midnight's Children"", see Mendes and Kuortti (2016). In June 2018 streaming service Netflix announced that it is adapting 'Midnight's Children' as an original Netflix TV series. Midnight's Children Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author"